Vivek.R

Ever present in these mountains, this air and these rivers is my soul..

[Vivek.R @Vivek788]

Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks @goodreads to discover the 42 books I read in 2024! https://t.co/SA9JRl5i2h

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@Prathamjc18 @zenrainman @namma_vjy @Bnglrweatherman @blrhavaamana @ravikeerthi22 Source pls

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How paint can change a room

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"The story of the EIC has never been more current" says @DalrympleWill in the Epilogue.

What a journey it has been for the history geek, especially reading this while listening to @EmpirePodUK on the retreat from Afghanistan.

5 ⭐
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Following both of them has become quite irritating nowadays with same content being posted b2b..

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@Conor_Harris_ What are remedies, if any? I seem to have both the symptoms and regular neck pain after even a slightly awkward sleep position at night.

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Check out #MyYearInBooks @goodreads to discover the 32 books I read in 2023! https://t.co/pIPgXQX91d

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@drsumeetbajaj @theliverdoc The villian in my story. I fight it when it name is mentioned. Ppl in my family now take it without my knowledge, or worse with support of their fav fam doc.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

97 year old comic about what would happen if "pocket telephones" were to be invented.

[Dr SHRADDHEY KATIYAR @Wegiveyouhealt1]

When i was fat and sick : Everybody was okay with it. No one saying anything except family members.

In 2014:

When I started awakening @ 5am
Cut sugar.
Started going gym.
Started reading daily
Started eating healthy.

Everybody were saying : This is madness & nobody can sustain this routine.

But in 2014 i started normal things only, still i am doing normal things only . Society takes it abnormal. They don’t want you to thrive . Awake from your deep sleep , take control of your body and life .

My experience is : Society wants to see you a big fail.

My suggestion for young people is : give them hard time of waiting.

[Vivek.R @Vivek788]

Sandeep is vaguely familiar but the other name was unheard of. One look at the profiles and proud of my social media exposures :) #sandeepmaheshwari #vivekbindra

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@theliverdoc Utter nonsense

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Homeopathy is really not sugar and water. It's alcohol.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The silent productivity killer you've never heard of...

Attention Residue (and 3 strategies to fight back):

The concept of "attention residue" was first identified by University of Washington business professor Dr. Sophie Leroy in 2009.

The idea is quite simple:

There is a cognitive cost to shifting your attention from one task to another. When our attention is shifted, there is a "residue" that remains in the brain and impairs our cognitive performance on the new task.

Put differently, you may think your attention has fully shifted to the next task, but your brain has a lag—it thinks otherwise!

It's relatively easy to find examples of this effect in your own life:

• You get on a call but are still thinking about the prior call.
• An email pops up during meeting and derails your focus.
• You check your phone during a lecture and can't refocus afterwards.

There are two key points worth noting here:

1. The research indicates it doesn't seem to matter whether the task switch is "macro" (i.e. moving from one major task to the next) or "micro" (i.e. pausing one major task for a quick check on some minor task).

2. The challenge is even more pronounced in a remote/hybrid world, where we're free to roam the internet, have our chat apps open, and check our phones all while appearing to be focused in a Zoom meeting.

With apologies to any self-proclaimed proficient multitaskers, the research is very clear:

Every single time you call upon your brain to move away from one task and toward another, you are hurting its performance—your work quality and efficiency suffer.

Author Cal Newport puts it well:

"If, like most, you rarely go more than 10–15 minutes without a just check, you have effectively put yourself in a persistent state of self-imposed cognitive handicap."

Here are three strategies to manage attention residue and fight back:

1. Focus Work Blocks: Block time on your calendar for sprints of focused energy. Set a timer for a 45-90 minute window, close everything except the task at hand, and focus on one thing. It works wonders.

2. Take a Breather: Whenever possible, create open windows of 5-15 minutes between higher value tasks. Schedule 25-minute calls. Block those windows on your calendar. During them, take a walk or close your eyes and breathe.

3. Batch Processing: You still have to reply to messages and emails. Pick a few windows during the day when you will deeply focus on the task of processing and replying to these. Your response quality will go up from this batching, and they won't bleed into the rest of your day.

Attention residue is a silent killer of your work quality and efficiency.

Understanding it—and taking the steps to fight back—will have an immediate positive impact on your work and life.

If you enjoyed this or learned something, share it with others and follow me @SahilBloom for more in future!

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 2020, a resident in the Philippines entered his garage only to find a 'human-sized' bat hanging there. Known as Flying Foxes, these creatures boast a wingspan of almost 6 feet, making them the largest bats on the planet.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Once upon a time, a man used to drink close to 1L dark rum a day

Over the course of four years, he developed chronic liver disease

Doctors advised him to stop alcohol. He did not. His wife got beaten up everytime she advised him for his good. It was his money, so he could do anything with it, was his excuse.

An year later, after a session of binge drinking, he developed severe alcohol-related hepatitis and his chronic liver disease became unstable

As the liver failure progressed, he figured out he would not live for long and his very young children will miss him. Only a liver transplant could save him.

His wife was a matching donor. He made a promise he would not touch alcohol again. The blood, sweat and tears drama ended with him getting a life saving liver transplant from him wife. She gave a part of her liver, so that the father of their children would survive. And he did.

Their business thrived. Everyone was happy.

Two years after the transplant, during business trips, he started with one glass a day, then three glasses a week. By the end of 6 months, he was back to drinking close to 1L of dark rum a day. He found his old friend.

Doctors advised him to stop. He broke deaddiction protocols. He did not turn up for counselling sessions.His wife got beaten up everytime she advised him for his good. It was his money, so he could do anything with it, was his excuse. But it was part of her liver and he had no right to destroy it, was hers. But now it was his. So he kept drinking for more than 18 months.

Six months ago, his new liver was diagnosed to be cirrhotic. His old friend had gotten his old disease back. Three months ago, he developed severe alcohol-related hepatitis after a binge. And his newly developed cirrhosis liver became unstable. Again.

As the liver failure progressed, he figured out he would not live for long and his grown children will miss him. Only a second liver transplant could save him.

The wife could not donate again. But her sister was a match. He made a promise he would not touch alcohol again. The blood, sweat and tears drama ended with them telling him no. There was no more money left. There was no more trust left.

Yesterday I send him back home, for comfort care and palliation, to die in peace, surrounded by the family he never knew he had.

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Vivek.R @Vivek788]

What a treasure trove of insider info. Ep. 116: India's Lost Decade by @IVMPodcasts on @Castbox_fm. Check out this episode. #podcasts #castbox https://t.co/sKNXU3uIVM
Wow @amitvarma . The book is on my to-read list now. #economics #policy #manmohansingh

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

How to give feedback without being a jerk:

1. Be a coach, not a critic. Aim to help, not attack.

2. Don't assert opinion as fact. You're sharing your subjective reaction, not the objective truth.

3. Be honest, not brutal. Be direct in what you say, but kind in how you say it.

[Vivek.R @Vivek788]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Any relation to the name 'cauliflower'?

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@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK Sheesh. And here I am..on first few pages of Anarchy and first episode of Russian empire not even half done.